Noted historians Catherine Clinton, Thavolia Glymph, and Kate Masur explore the untold stories of the women abolitionists and suffragists of the Civil War and Reconstruction and how their work influenced constitutional change. Lana Ulrich, senior director of content at the National Constitution Center, moderates.
This program is presented in conjunction with the National Constitution Center’s permanent exhibit Civil War and Reconstruction: The Battle for Freedom and Equality.
Participants
- Catherine Clinton holds the Denman Chair of American History at the University of Texas in San Antonio and is Professor Emerita at Queen’s University Belfast. She has served on the executive council of the Society of American Historians and on the Advisory Committee of the Abraham Lincoln Presidential Bicentennial Commission. She also served as a consultant for Steven Spielberg’s 2012 film, “Lincoln.” Clinton has written and edited nearly 30 books, including Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, Mrs. Lincoln: A Life, and Stepdaughters of History: Southern Women and The Civil War.
- Thaovlia Glymph is professor of history and law at Duke University, where she studies the U.S. South with a focus on 19th century social history. She has published numerous articles and essays and is the author of Out of the House of Bondage: The Transformation of the Plantation Household and The Women's Fight: The Civil War's Battles for Home, Freedom, and Nation. She is co-editor of the award-winning documentary series, Freedom: A Documentary History of Emancipation, 1861-1867 and is also a member of the National Constitution Center’s Civil War and Reconstruction exhibit advisory board.
- Kate Masur is associate professor of history at Northwestern University where she specializes in the history of the 19th-century United States, focusing on how Americans grappled with questions of race and equality after the abolition of slavery in both the North and South. Masur, a faculty affiliate of the Department of African American Studies, is author of An Example for All the Land: Emancipation and the Struggle over Equality in Washington, D.C. and numerous articles on emancipation and black politics during and after the Civil War. She is als a member of the National Constitution Center’s Civil War and Reconstruction exhibit advisory board.
- Lana Ulrich is senior director of content, constitutional fellow, and senior counsel at the National Constitution Center, where she manages the Center's constitutional content and programming, including podcasts, America's Town Hall programs, exhibits, the online Interactive Constitution, and the Constitution Daily blog. She also assists with any legal matters relating to the Center’s operations and directs the Continuing Legal Education program.
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